Describes an end-of-the-term project in which students were encouraged to write for a specific, actual audience. (FL)

Art Partnership Networks enlist college students, majors in every field of art, each of whom "adopts" a gifted elementary school child.

Describes the organization and implementation of "Fiesta Night", an activity coordinated by junior high school students. Such responsibility was given to the students in order to encourage them to utilize language communication skills. Suggestions are given here for planning and implementing such an event. (PJM)

This general overview on the gifted discusses student identification, teaching methods, and model programs for the musically gifted. (SJL)

Discusses the language experience approach to remedial reading as a method to move the high school student with poor reading skills away from instructional techniques with which the student has experienced difficulty and into a no-fail reading situation. (HTH)

Outlines the content, method, and initial evaluation of a two-day workshop designed to teach basic reading monitoring skills to parents. (HTH)

Briefly described is "The Art of Successful Inventing," a program which teaches gifted children to invent a step by step methodological fashion. (DB)

Briefly described is the program of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, a residential program for gifted high school juniors and seniors which opened in 1980. Noted are the admission process, annual cost, course offerings, the work program, and attitudes of faculty and students. (DB)

Describes the cooperative television advertising arrangement between Johnson County Community College (KS) and the Metropolitan Community College District (MO), which resulted in the lease and later in the production of public-service announcements to promote student recruitment. Outlines the project's development, problems, and successes.…

The article describes the three-year development/demonstration phase of a project for gifted/talented handicapped children, known as RAPYHT (Retrieval and Acceleration of Promising Young Handicapped and Talented). (Author/DLS)

The article defines the characteristics of a learning disabled reader and provides brief summaries of eight special education reading programs (such as the Fernald Method and the Distar Program). (PHR)

Describes the background of TV for Learning, a project to produce and distribute instructional television (ITV) awareness materials, and the project's creation of a sound film to spotlight successful ITV series, local promotion and awareness campaigns, and coordination of a variety of delivery activities to assist local ITV directors. (CMV)

The article describes a curriculum for the visually handicapped which provides instruction in the four basic facets of landmark travel. The concepts included in the curriculum are: (1) learning the concept of landmarks, (2) remaining oriented to landmarks, (3) following direction based on landmarks, and (4) giving verbal directions based on them.…

Describes the Summer Scholars program in which 20 high school students in the top of their class take two community college courses in the summer between their junior and senior years. Discusses the courses offered, credit, program success and benefits. (AYC)

Provides citations and abstracts of documents from the ERIC junior colleges collection dealing with services such as career advisement, articulation with four-year colleges, personal development, admissions, course enrollment assistance, student assessment, course advisement, services for the handicapped, financial aid, veterans' assistance, and…